Sweetums and Swatums are female and male Sooty Owls that the Band stay with during their initial journey to the Great Tree. Sweetums and Swatums are merely the nicknames they call each other, and their real names are unknown.
They have grown children who left the nest about a year previously and who live nearby. They have stated they may have another brood in the future, though they are quite content to be with each other if they don't.
History[]
The Journey[]
Not long after Soren and Gylfie befriend Twilight and Digger, the four owls and Mrs. P set off to find the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, meeting various owls along the way.
One owl couple they meet is a pair of Sooty Owls, whom they meet them shortly after meeting the Snobby Masked Owls and who welcome the Band into their hollow to sleep for the day. The two owls call each other by the nicknames Sweetums and Swatums, and act incredibly affectionate towards one another, constantly preening each other, much to Soren's disgust. They talk as if they lead the perfect life, although the Band thinks that their lives appear incredibly mundane and boring. While the Band are interested to discuss the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, Sweetums and Swatums seem dismissive of their curiosity, not wanting to bother themselves with such "fancy ideas".
Despite their gentle nature, the Sooty Owls are said to be excellent hunters, bringing back so many sugar gliders to the Band that they became sick of them, and the Band even jokes that prolonged consumption of sugar gliders made them speak and act in this way.